Blackhill and Consett Park is a Victorian public park on the northern edge of Consett, donated to the town in 1891 by the Consett Iron Company — an unusually benevolent gesture from an industrial employer that also funded housing and schools for its workers. The park has the classic Victorian layout of formal gardens, a bandstand, bowling green, and open grassland, with good views across the Derwent Valley from its higher ground.
It remains a well-maintained local park and a pleasant place for a walk, particularly when the rhododendrons are in bloom in late May and early June. The Consett Iron Company's paternalistic relationship with the town — building parks and institutions for a workforce that had no other options — is part of what made the 1980 closure so devastating: the company had been the centre of civic life for over a century.